Army Special Agent John Puller, working with the local homicide detective, uncovers a conspiracy while trying to determine who killed a family in rural West Virginia.

Sidelined after a colleague's blunder, CIA agent Brooke Chandler envisions a way to halt an Al Qaeda plot to set off a massive nuclear explosion and begins a race against time that returns him to Lebanon, where nothing is quite as it seems.

Twenty years after he made a deadly mistake, thirty-seven-year old Nick Horrigan is pulled from his apartment in the middle of the night by a SWAT team and brought to a nuclear power plant to face a terrorist who knows the truth about the tragic events that have hindered his life.

William Bernhardt’s bestselling novels explore politics, power, ambition, crime, and the law. Now he scales new heights of suspense as, in one harrowing day, lawyer and former senator Ben Kincaid enters the eye of an international storm, a crisis with consequences beyond calculation. Kincaid is in a meeting with the president in the Oval Office when Washington suddenly explodes into chaos. Facing an imminent threat to the White House, Kincaid is...